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by mdasen 4d ago
You're probably not getting mm wave with Mint. T-Mobile hasn't deployed mm wave much. They have deployed a lot of 2.5GHz spectrum which will be very fast (faster than most people's home internet connections). If you're s
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by mdasen 4d ago
5GUW on Verizon isn't necessarily mm wave. Originally, it meant mm wave, but that hasn't been the case since 2022. Now it means the 3-5GHz C-Band spectrum or the 20-50GHz mm wave. If you're seeing 5GUW on your phone, it'
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by mdasen 15d ago
Were they trying to get Apple's AI IP? I haven't followed that closely, but it seems like a lot of it has been around hardware design, not AI.
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by mdasen 29d ago
Yes, there are trade-offs, but you can get really great tires on all three. The Michelin CrossClimate2 tires are arguably the best traction tires, Consumer Reports estimates 95,000 miles of tread life in their testing (higher than basically
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by mdasen 1mo ago
Artificial Analysis shows Grok 4.6 taking $1,068 to run their suite while Gemini 3.7 Flash takes $485. So it looks like Gemini 3.7 Flash is less than half the price in the real world. Per-token cost isn't a great metric given that some
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by mdasen 1mo ago
Xylitol is really cool that way. The bacteria waste energy trying to convert it to a form they can use, but they just end up with at a dead end with xylitol-5-phosphate. Once they realize that they need to get rid of it, they convert it bac
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by mdasen 1mo ago
There's also other options than brutally punitive financial penalties or holding execs personally responsible. For example, if a data center is illegally running gas turbines, the penalty could be that the data center must be shut down
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by mdasen 2mo ago
That's an unusually low electric rate for the US - way below the lowest state average which is Idaho at 12.4 cents. It's certainly possible that you are getting 7.5 cents including delivery, but I've had friends say that they
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by mdasen 2mo ago
Is this an open source tool? Is it something we have to pay for? The site really doesn't tell me what I should be expecting.
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by mdasen 2mo ago
But to run the entire benchmark it cost $727 with Gemini 3.6 Flash and $925 with GLM-5.2, $198 (21.4%) less. I tend to look at the cost to run the whole index rather than the weighted average cost per task.
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by mdasen 2mo ago
LMArena's "code" leaderboard is really skewed since it's a front-end JS code and design leaderboard. It generates a demo app with two models and then asks "do you prefer A or B". People can look at the code, bu
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by mdasen 2mo ago
It also depends on how many tokens it needs to burn through to accomplish something. At this point, I always look at things like Artificial Analysis' total cost to run their tests. It'll take into consideration the cost of tokens,
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by mdasen 2mo ago
When OnePlus started, they were considerably cheaper than flagship phones from others. At $299, the OnePlus One was a ton less than the $650 you'd pay for an iPhone 6 or Galaxy S5. You were getting a 95% flagship phone at half the pric
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by mdasen 2mo ago
I'll add: - Telegram had usernames in 2014 before Signal added them a decade later, allowing people to chat without sharing their phone number - Telegram has unencrypted chats which allow for giant chat rooms of 200,000+ and channels w
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by mdasen 3mo ago
I'm a bit skeptical. Cursor's benchmark finds that Cursor's model (Composer 2.5) is basically as good as Opus 4.8 max and GPT-5.5 xhigh, but at a fraction of the price. Artificial Analysis' testing shows Composer 2.5 to
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by mdasen 3mo ago
What it's saying is that the M6 will be released, but not the M6 Pro or M6 Max. Instead, Apple will wait to release new Max/Pro chips for a future generation. It's not simply marketing since the Pro/Max chips of a genera
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by mdasen 3mo ago
You have the ability to move, as long as Bluesky Social PBC allows it. They hold the keys for your DID. If they don't allow you to move to another PDS, you can't move. The original theory was that you'd hold the private keys,
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by mdasen 3mo ago
Where do you see that? I see they have GPT-5.5 (xhigh) at 55, GPT-5.5 (high) at 53, and Muse Spark at 43. Muse Spark does beat GPT-5.4 mini (xhigh) which scores 40, but the key there is "mini". In the coding index, GPT-5.5 gets 59
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by mdasen 3mo ago
Not really. You could allow private.icloud.com only if they're using Apple's SSO. If someone tries to create an account not using Apple's SSO, then you don't allow private.icloud.com email addresses.
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by mdasen 3mo ago
I find that I don't use a ton of output tokens. I'm usually around 95% cached input, 4% input, and 1% output. For me, the big thing with MiMo-V2.5-Pro and DeepSeek V4-Pro is that cached inputs are practically free. Kimi K2.7 Code
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by mdasen 4mo ago
Yes, it's a "smaller" (137B) model that competes with Haiku, but it's basically the performance of Qwen3.6-35B-A3B which is 75% smaller and 98% smaller in terms of active parameters (since it's a mixture of experts
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by mdasen 4mo ago
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by mdasen 4mo ago
The point of the article isn't "Malawi is poor compared to Europe," but rather comparing Malawi to other countries that were similarly colonized and how other colonized countries have done a lot better than Malawi - despite o
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by mdasen 4mo ago
I too don't want to write OS-specific stuff, but here's some counter arguments. With egui, it's an immediate mode GUI rather than retained mode and that has trade-offs: https://github.com/emilk/egui#why-i
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by mdasen 4mo ago
> electric-drivetrain with onboard gasoline generator Generally speaking, it's more efficient to power a car using a series-parallel hybrid system than an electric drivetrain with generator (series hybrid) while not really being any
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by mdasen 4mo ago
> It was about x64 being unable to keep up - independent of Intel’s Fab capabilities which have improved lately. But the big reason x64 couldn't keep up was that Intel's fab capabilities were horrible. Intel got stuck and could
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by mdasen 5mo ago
It's really interesting how much the AI harness seems to matter. Going from 48% via Google's official results to 65% is a huge jump. I feel like I'm constantly seeing results that compare models and rarely seeing results that
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by mdasen 5mo ago
Sure. Dirac is just a fork of the Cline harness and obviously OpenCode could take the same techniques and implement them. I don't know how difficult it would be to implement them in OpenCode, but given that Dirac and OpenCode are both
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by mdasen 5mo ago
> Bad actors can strip sources out I think the issue is that it's not just bad actors. It's every social platform that strips out metadata. If I post an image on Instagram, Facebook, or anywhere else, they're going to stri
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by mdasen 6mo ago
In the early days, Netflix benefited from other media companies not recognizing streaming for what it was: their replacement. They licensed content to Netflix cheaply without thinking about how it would impact DVD sales or cable tv subscrip

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